Already for the 4th time the ONCE Foundation presented theInternational Congress on Design, Research Networks, and Technology for all (DRT4All) in Madrid. Between the 27th and 29th of June, 2011 the topic on making new technologies better accessible for everyone was touched.
The Vodafone Foundation in Spain, sponsor of this event, also patronized actively this event with different workshops, among those “Proposals in the field of Social Networks” presented by José Manuel Azorín, manager of the social product unit at Vodafone Spain. Already 40% of the Spanish population are handicapped and elder people who see themselves confronted by high obstacles in accessing social networks. Therefore it’s indispensable for the telecommunication industry to respond also on these special needs.
As one selected showcase service which aims to close the Digital Gap and aspires a deeper social integration for visual impaired, José Manuel presented a new mobile service to access social networks by voice.
This announced service developed by Almira Labs allows publishing voice messages on Twitter and Facebook with a simple phone call. Its principal advantage is based in ease of usage: the access from every kind of fix or mobile telephone device in the market, without the need of advanced terminal or internet connection.
Thus Almira Labs also takes active part to bring democracy to telephone services. And certainly, we will keep you updated as soon as we will launch this new service in the near future.
From the 13th to the 17th June, 2011, Almira Labs´ got the great opportunity to join a “Technical Mission” to Silicon Valley, California. Organized by the Spanish Chamber of Foreign Trade ICEX, the Banesto Foundation and the consultancy Carlos Barrabés 15 innovative Spanish IT companies were invited to this business trip which catered to bring Spanish companies to Silicon Valley to get known the ecosystem and to try to settle down there.
The United States are a highly attractive market with more than 300 millions of potential consumers. So it was interesting for us to discover the infrastructural and financial circumstances of this Californian IT think tank.
Palo Alto, for example, a small town of only some 60.000 inhabitants in the valley already concentrates a settlement of more than more than 7,000 IT related businesses that employ more than 98,000 jobs. This is an enormous creative density, where Facebook, Amazon and Google for instance are literally neighbors – a perfect place for accelerating fruitful synergies.
For Almira Labs this trip was an excellent occasion to make budding contacts with interesting advisers, potential partners and investors. Although the companies there set high benchmarks in the industry, we noticed that Spain also offers some really high potential projects from which we are convinced to here pretty soon again!
Special thanks again to all involved parties for having such a great time together!
And for those of you who are interested in some more impressions of Almira Labs’ CEO Javier Martín, please see the following video below.
Some further great news at this year’s MOVILFORUM LATAM came from the Spanish state secretary of telecommunications, Francisco Ros, who announced that Spain heads the European ranking of fixed and mobile broadband penetration with 47%, which exceeds the European average by 4% referring to the latest result of the OCED (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).
But that number is even more impressive when you look at its composition. A detailed view only on the mobile branch reveals that the Spanish market shows a broadband coverage with 26% which is twice as high as their European neighbors.
But every true success story always has its slight “bellyshadow”. The OCED report also uncovers Spain’s disproportionately high ADSL prices compared to their other 30 European opponents. With over 20% in price difference, Spanish operators earn their money pretty well by allocating a widespread broadband access. As a matter of fact, the Spanish subscription fees are one of the highest of all member states.
This year Telefónica invited several players to the second “Movilforum Latin America Conference 2011” to Brazil under the claim: “The future of mobility will be here. Where are you?”
And ALMIRA LABS were there, in Rio de Janeiro from the 24th to 25th of May, to follow our expansion project by focusing also on the Central and South American market and strategize our commercial opportunities and business ventures.
During this get-together from Telefónica’s CEOs of al Latin-Americans branches and clients of their key accounts with selected mobile and service providers from all over the world, like Samsung, Rim and Huawei, we presented our own “Application Store” to operators who are looking for new promising end consumer and corporate services to enrich their own portfolio.
Thereby ALIMRA LABS’ concept includes the integration of our entire product range as white-labelled application store on the operator’s platform, but also the single use of our engaging services. Telefónica’s executives were highly interested in our ideas and we are looking forward to establish prospering partnerships in Latin America in the following months.
With our unique business strategy to conquer the telecommunication market with value added services (VAS) for everyone and every phone device, Almira Labs proudly presents his ultimate voice-based service geared to the mass-market.
MEMMORI is a new way of sending email messages with your own voice from any mobile or landline phone, no matter where you are. This allows the user to send reminders of his important tasks, meetings and appointments or pending birthdays to his or another email account whenever it comes to mind.
By receiving the voice message as an email attachment, this simple tool facilitates to organize any business or private agenda to never forget any important date again. On top, emails of your contacts can be answered in a glimpse even now with your personal touch and this without any need to get access to the internet.
In the first place ALMIRA LABS launches his MEMMORI service as part of his VAS Store to target the Spanish market. In the near future the expansion to the international market is planned with this and even more upcoming services
The autonomy to any phone operator and the compatibility with other GTD personal organizer programs like “Evernote” and “Rembember the Milk” make MEMMORI an essential service for a flexible lifestyle.
BRAZIL isn’t only famous for its awesome beaches, its superb Caipirinhas and its comfy Haivaianas – No! Even more impressive for us is the fact that there are currently over 210 millions cell phones. Consequently Brazil is member of the club of the 5 countries with the most cell phones in use after China, India, the US and Russia. Likewise to the other BRIC-state members Brazil showed a huge increase of new cell phone lines. Only in the first quarter of 2011 was the strongest one in the last 11 years in Brazilians mobile sector.
Therefore it is no surprise at all that this 2nd edition of Telefonica´s Movilforum Latin America Conference will be held again in Rio de Janeiro on the 24th and 25th of May, 2011 to gather the who-is-who of the telecommunication sector, providing them a platform to expose the latest competitive and cutting-edge solutions to redefine the state of art in mobile solutions.
And it´s not surprising neither, that Almira Labs takes part in this event in coordination with AMETIC and ICEX (Spanish Foreign Trade Institute). As a part of our expansion project, Almira Labs has set its eyes on the American continent where it is already dealing with commercial opportunities in the US and CALA region. Following its unique approach of developing telecom services for all devices, Almira will be participating this year in some of the most important telecom-industry related events such as Movilforum Conference Latinamerica in Brazil.
So, in unison with this year’s motto of the Movilforum LATAM: “The future of mobility will be here. How about you?” we happily await you in Brazil, as well.
Contact us and let´s meet up: info@almiralabs.com.
AMERICA – “the rise from rags to riches” – the country of boundless possibilities – and ALMIRA LABS followed this auspicious call, but to Orlando???
Correct! In 2011 Orlando is the place to be assumed you work in the ICT business! This year the CTIA (the International Association of the Wireless Telecommunications Industry) invited to one of the largest technology events in the world. From the 22nd – 24th, March 2011 more than 1,000 exhibiting companies, dozens of industries, and over 40,000 professionals from 125 countries gathered in Orlando to a multifarious think-tank to elaborate new approaches to revolutionize wireless communication.
Among all them, ALMIRA LABS also involved itself in this brainstorming by strongly focusing on device-independent mobile solutions to attract the whole band width of fixed and cell phone users. And what´s the best idea to catch everyone’s attention? By initiating a clever mouth-to-mouth propaganda where we gave away our exclusive Brainphones to all visitors of our booth. Our keynote behind this campaign is pretty simple – Even an ordinary mobile device can become a smartphone and every smartphone can be a SUPER-Phone! And the best of all, this UPGRADE can be reached without any tedious installation and big investments in new soft- or hardware.
Our campaign was an éclat, we loved to see the surprised faces of those who got know our Brainphone for the first time. Everyone was astonished by our unique wireless and wireline value added services to bring every phone device and every phone users to new heights of telecommunication. This we call Almira Labs´ non conformist philosophy.
Almira Labs, as a Vodafone partner, will exhibit in this event that will take place in Madrid next Tuesday, 16th november. This MOVE 10 is one of the more relevant technological appointments in the year.
MOVE 10 is the best place to showcase our services profolio for wireline and wireless technology that is aimed at both consumer and corporate clients. We will present our services to visitors, Vodafone’s clients and its salesforce.
This event allow us to strengthen our collaboration with the carrier, whose immediate result will be the availability our some of our services within the applications platform Vodafone Business Place.
Galapagar Companies Association, in Madrid, has tried a new ways of communications with its associates with our MediaCast tool, which allows sending voice messages to multiple recipients. Such messages are sent simultaneously and received either in fixed or mobile phones.
AEGE’s President, Mr Jesus Fernandez, has sent a message recorded with his own voice to all associated companies as a reminder for an upcoming appointment. This action had a great reception among all recipients, and some of them have already requested its continuity as a means of internal communication.
From Almira Labs, we want to thank AEGE’s and its President for their trust in our MediaCast solution and we hope to work together again soon in actions like this.
Almira Labs is in the semi-final of the Eurecan European Venture Contest 2010. Next phase will take place in the upcoming EVS European Venture Summit in Duesselfdorf, 6th and 7th December. The top 25 companies selected in this stage will finally compete for the Gran Prize in Barcelona, at the EEVC Eurecan European Venture Contest Final Jury, 16th December.
Our efforts in R&D and our continuous focus on innovation have granted us to be among the best projects for the second year in a row. This event is a Caja Navarra initiative that has given our business project the recognition of a jury made of investors and international experts.
Already for the 4th time the ONCE Foundation presented the International Congress on Design, Research Networks, and Technology for all (DRT4All) in Madrid. Between the 27th and 29th of June, 2011 the topic on making new technologies better accessible for everyone was touched.
From the 13th to the 17th June, 2011, Almira Labs´ got the great opportunity to join a “Technical Mission” to Silicon Valley, California. Organized by the Spanish Chamber of Foreign Trade 
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